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dimitri tapes mnt @titille GEORGE W. BENNETT, or' HARRODSBURG, INDIANA.

Leners Patent No. 103,284, camz May 24, 1870.

-ooo--m IMPROVED APPLE-PARER, CUTTER, AND CORER.

' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern: A

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BENNETT, of Harrodsburg, in the county otrMon'ro'e and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Apple-paring, Gering, and Quartering-Machine; and I do 4hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', which will enable othersskilled in the on the ways upon which the carriage moves, for im- `parting motion to the spindle and the knife for paring,

`while the apple `is carried to coring and quarteringcylinders, into which it is forced aiterit has been pared, and the rotary motion of' the. spindle has stopped. i i

From the quarterng 'and oorlog-cylinders the quarters are delivered .laterally into a receptacle, and the cores are forced through the smali cylinder and out at the end.

Figure 1 is a transverse sectionalv elevation of my improved machine, and

` Figure 2 is a plan view ot' the same.

A is the bed-plate, and Bthe ways thereon for the carriage C. to slide o n back and forth to and from the quartering-cylluder D and the coring-cylinder E.

The apple-holding and revolving spindle F and the `knife G are mounted on this carriage, also the driving-gear for the knife and spindle, consisting of the segmentalspurfand bevel-wheel H, fearing with the rack I on one of the ways B, the'bevel-pinion K, the multiplying-wheel L, the pinion M attached to it, and the pinion M on the spindle.

`The knife is ofthe usual construction, and mounted on the arm N, pivoted at the lower end, at O, to a bracket projecting,downward from the carriage, and, rising up between the arms y zef'wheel H, is held up ragainst the apple on the spindle by the spring I?, and

moved around the apple by` the said wheel'H.

Q yis a handle att-ached to the carriage for applying the hands for moving it back and forth.

The qua-rtering and coring-cylindersare attached to the other end of the bed, and arranged with 'their axes on the axis of the spindle, the eoring-cylinde'r .being of the right size vto out the core out of the center of the apple when vforced into it, and the quartering-cylinder is large enough to take in the largest apple.

The said quartering-cylinder is provided with four radial cutters, S, at ,the end which receives the apple, by which it is quartered, and an opening is malle in the 4side of the cylinder at T, with a chute, U, upon which the quarters fall, to be delivered to a receptacle below, while the cores are forced out of the cylinder- E at the opposite end.

When the carriage `is drawn backz for the applicationof the apple, the wheel H will be so placed'that the arm N ot' the cutter maybe held iu the notch c.

of the proiectingvplate W, and the notch X of the rim of the 'wheel away from and opposite to the points ofthe spindle, vin the line of the axis thereof', to admit of applying the apple readily, and so that, immediately ou shoving the carriage forward, the cutter will beforced .up against the end of the apple, and then be moved slowly toward the heel of the spindle, as the apple revolves rapidly, bythe wheel H, between the two arms y z, between which the arm N rises for the purpose.

The wheel H passes ont of gear with the rack before the apple arrives at the cylinders, and the rotation of' the apple stops. f

Having thus'described my invention,

. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-,

1. The combination of the sliding carriage, provided with a pushngfhandle, Q, the segmental wheel H, ther toothed stationary rack l, the spindle F, gear-wheel L,

and pinion M', all arranged to operate as shown and Y described. v

'2. In combination with the elementsfoi` the above claim, the 'knife-arm N, working in a slot of the segmental wheel H, as` shown and described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me lthis 3d day of Marcil, 1870.

GEORGE XV. BENNETT.

Witnesses: S. M. Ulmer,

L. S. limpia.' 

